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SEAT IN THE

This Problem Film Is A Pleasant Change

By H. H. WOLLENBERG

A

nchlove

from

PLEASANT change from

Meanwhile the Governors of the each other. It is a light-hearted

certain ta and school announce that the school war affair and thrillers, musicals

Memorial Fund with be used to popular success. light comedies, "Tho send poor boys to the universities, One of the Internationni trains Guinea Pig," based on a piny and this decision enables Joel to go which mee across Europe which had a long run on the to Cambridge. With happler west to cast is the background for London stage, is a film which future before him, Jack manages to "Sleeping Car to Trieste," a Bim deals with a modern educational school and win the respect of

the which time and, thrills.

combinca glamour. meld

The plot problem."

other boys.

centres on a diary

with explosive political secrets which is It depicts the conflict between Richard Attenborough, star of in the possession of a Polo (Alan

gives

Wheatley) who refuses to give it up tradition and experiment in the many One Brillsh Nims,

boy- on this perilous journey convincing portrait of the

adapt himself to the wags, tof

tho

illed

world of higher education in hero, and makes no false gesture Paris-Trieste Express. оль the

Britain.

But it is by no means a gloomy film: the story is treated in a warm, human, intelligent man- ner, and there is comedy to balance the serious side of the drama.

a

in the transformation from the Cockney lad to the proud wearer of the school tlo in the last scenes.

Porfect Cast:

The Pole is murdered during tho desperate battle for the Incriming- ting diary. The passengers in' the sleeping car arc skilfully-drawa characters: Jean Kent ja tha mysterious Valya; ECIL Trouncer, as the stubborn glamorous

die-hard housemaster and Robert Albert Lieven is Zuria, her sinister Fleming, as the virile modern and companion. sympathetic tutor, head a perfect Derrick de Marney, the woll- cast.

and Bernard Miles

Joan known actor, plays the role of E Hickson give authentic perfor solicitor whose pretty friend is A mances as Jack's

parents from newcomer to the screen, Rona London.

Anderson. She has quite a speelal

The hero, Jack, a boy from working-class home in 11 London suburb, is given an opportunity to complete his education at a famous publle school. Ho thus becomes a The Bouling brothers made the individual charm of her own. The kind of human "guinea pig" for picture for Pilgrim Pictures, a new large cast includes David Tomlinson, those who believe in this educational independent company. One of Bri- Bonar Collegno.

Hugh Burdon, experiment.

tain's most beautiful public schools Finlay Curric, and Coco Asian. was used to provide realistic atmos John Paddy Carstairs directed Right from his arrival at

the phere

and the "Evening Standard" film. school Jack meets the hostility Di

writes:

the other boys, who sneer at and "The film has been made with Local Colour: mock his pronounced Cockney accent such intelligent tenderness that you and object to his manners. which will be carried effortlessly .and are not up to their conventional absorbed through un standard. This #eneral dislike aspect of British life."

of Jack is shared by his tradition-

Important MANY of the new

bound housemaster, who frankly In "Woman Inter" the producers disapproves of this democratie ex- have made the bold experiment of periment.

Attempts Escapo:

carting Stewart Granger, опе of Britain's top-ranking dramatie screen stars, in a slapstick comedy role which must come as a trent surprise to his millions of feminine admirers.

FTER a time Jack Ands this com A bined hostility unbearable, and

The exceptionally beautiful attempts to escape from what' he feels is a prizon and not a school, French star, Edwige Feuillere, plays

Fortunately ho is caught by

opposite him, and the experiment on has proved a grent success. reveals Junior master who

greni

of sympathy and understanding for Granger plays the role

Hearing the boy's plight, und persuades woman-hating aristocrat.

famous Hollywood woman Jack to show spirit and stick the that

star boasts that she is not interested experiment out.

in men, Granger deeldes to put her

tho

ms now in various stages of production In- dicate that United Kingdom direc- tors, especially those of Independent units, are broadening the range of their subjects and searching for authentic, backgrounds antilocal. colour.

A considerable number of pro- duction units have gone to European countries this year. Tho John Stafford Productions, for instance. are making "The Golden Madonna" in Rome.

This master arranges a meeting be- claim to the test and Invites her to omnibus Vinrestvic' story which

There ho

estate his

tween Jack's working-class parenta hla country estate. and the stubborn housemaster. sumes the role of his own Jack's father expresses himself in agent, but eventually defents such a firm forthright manner that orignal intention funny situations,

persuading tho

be succeeds

in

For after

housemaster to change his attitude the two who have declared they hate towards the experiment.

the opposite sex fall in love

Film Of The Year"

In Ban Trouble

By Stephen Watts

with

THE film for which Olivia de Havilland has been ac- Snake claimed in America as star of the year-"The Pit has run into trouble in London. British censor- ship has a rule against showing inmates of lunatic asylums on the screen.

"Snake Pit takes place mainly in an asylum, and the heroine is an inmate. The original novel was brilliant but nightmarish.

censors say At present nobody will talk about the problem. The "The Alm has not yet been submitted." Twentieth Century-Fox arc

film. There arc issuing no information or photographs from the plans for a London showing.

IS RITA WASHED UP? ́·

no

PEOPLE keep saying to nic, with a query in their volces, "I suppose Rita Hayworth's career is washed up now" My answer is yes and Her Hollywood studio may be angry with her but won't dro her. She is much too valuable a property: But if the influential public bodles like women's clubs boycott her she may be finished indeed.

no.

Her employers paid a lot of money for the play "Born Yesterday," On the for which she would be ideal. They are still holding it for her. basis of her recent behaviour "Born Every Minute" would be more apl British reactions one way or the other will begin to show when her new Alm, "Loves of Carmen, opens in London soon.

THE BRAVEST MAN IN FILMS

BRAVEST man in films (unless he is contemplating a long journey) ta Brian Foy, producer, who says the only Hollywood stars worth their big money are: Crosby, Grable, Hayworth (see what I mean?), Ladd. Cagney, Tracy, Grant. But the bravery coines in when he names another seven ng "dying": Loretia Young. Hedy Lamarr, Bette Davis (what about that £00,000 which made her Hollywood's biggest woman earner last year?) George Brent, John Hodiak, Sylvia Sidney, and Belan Donlevy,

AN UP-AND-COMING STAR

itr

THE new Terence Rattigan play, "Adventure Story," which got off to a riotously successful start at Brighton recently, nearly killed director, Peter Glenville, before the curtain rose. He saw his settings erected for the first time on Sunday, started rehearsal at midnight, continued next day and night without sleep.

The play, the most spectacular Rattigan has ever done, is set 360 B.C. He received first-night presents of two coins of the period, one from Henry Channon. MP., with Plalemy's head on 11, and one from an American, with Alexander the Great's Jikeness. Twenty-six-year-old Paul Scofield, who plays Alexander, will, I predict, be the next stage star in the Olivier class.

THE ANN TODD SEASON

Gregory Ratoff has taken a Lon- don Films unit across 10 Franco for the scenery of "Autumn Violins."

in Young Bonar Collcano, starring "A Tale of Five Citles," is making for this grand tour of Europe is being

by Grand No- tional Pictures. The first episode is being made Berlin. Michael Powell, and Emeric Pressburger, a famous "Archers" team are shooting outdoor scenes In Tours in France for "The Elusive Pimpernel," which sturs the very busy. David Niven.

In

SALLY'S A NEW GIRL NOW!

SALLY GRAY

vicious wife

TYPE-CASTING is the best- ting an in nine out of every ten films, British and American, Read the stars' names before- hand and you khow the kind of ator which is coming.

Obsession, just begun at Pino- wood, is the exceptional tenth picture. Edward Dmytryk, Hollywood director who mado Crossfire, tikes to do things differently.

Thue, Robert trayer of

Newton, por-

Syken

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Harity Street doctor; Baily

Gray, whose cellulold heroines sometimes sloy, is the kind of viciove wife for whom tho Greeka had a word.

Phil Brown. the young Americon ideallat of The Glass Monagerie, las remained on to play an unscrupulous rous; and for the debonair Naunton Wayne-lié will be seen as "a Scotland Yard superintendent.

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Hollywood Part For Welsh Actor

THE Ann Todd season is upon us. Outstandingly good in the recent "Paradine Case," she now emerges In "The Passionate Friends," David Lean's first picture since "Oliver Twist."

Letto Lean's stor again in "Madeleine," which is just about to R character actor, bng been given

go into production.

I

This is the story of Madeleine Smith, the Glasgow girl of the last century who was charged with murdering her French lover, and got away with "Not proven" verdict. An unknown young Frenchman, Ivan Deane, gets the co-starring part.

NEW AND 'DIFFERENT'

DUYS Williams, the noted Walshi

an important role in the new flim

Tokyo Jae,'

Others in the "Tokyo Joo" cast are Humphrey Bogart, the Czecho- slovakan actress Florence Marley: Alexander Knox, the Canadian actor and writer, and Seshue Hayakawa, Japanese who once T-last we won't have to refer any longer to Kathleen Byron as "the was an important Hollywood star.

girt who went mad in 'Black Narcissus." With the Archers' screen Two other Japaneco, Teru version of Nigel Bolchin's best seller "The Small Back Room" she becomes Shimada and Howard Kumagal, oro a star. The girl, who promised much has now achieved.

also in the cast. And, thank heaven, the is different-a face that won't be confused They are among the first Japanese with six others, and obviously with a brain functioning behind it. The to return to the Hollywood screen film is brillant, if erratic at times, with dazzling bils of Powell-Press-since the war. burger cinematic gentur and a few moments heavily over-fantasticated. Hayakawa, who spent the war,

Even at this early stage I feel safe in forecasting that the scene in in Paris, recently returned to Holly- "Tho Small Back Room" when, Dayld Farrar undoes an unexploded bomb [wood and “lins been given several on a beach with n running commentary over the telephone" in case.ké film paris. He hopes to regain his dosan'l survive, will rank as one of the big tension moments of the year's former screen popularity and

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